Aug. 17-21 Charleston, S.C. 10th Annual Occupational Safety and Health Summer Institute University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The institute will consist of 21h-day courses on topics that include fundamentals of occupational safety, advanced occupational safety, occupational monitoring, personal sampling, applied industrial toxicology, and control of biohazards. $390 per course. Ted Williams, Occupational Safety and Health Educational Resource Center, 109 Conner Dr., Suite 1101, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514; (919) 962-2101 Aug. 17-21 West Berlin 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene Indoor Air '87 will focus on topics such as exposure to radon, health effects of indoor air pollutants and organic contaminants, improvement of indoor air quality, and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. Poster sessions are also scheduled. DM 750 (about $400 U.S.). Conference Secretariat, Indoor Air '87, CPO Hanser Service GmbH, Schaumburgallee 12, D-1000 Berlin 19, West Germany; phone (30) 305 31 31; Telex 186 111 cpod Aug. 30-Sept. 4 Athens, Greece International Conference: Acid Rain University of Essex, Colchester, England Major themes of this meeting will include pollutant sources; deposition processes; effects on aquatic ecosystems, plants, soil, and buildings; acid rain's role in forest decline; and direct and indirect effects on human health. Roy M. Harrison, Institute of Aerosol Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, U.K.; phone 44-206-862826 Sept. 15-18 Zurich, Switzerland 8th Ozone World Congress International Ozone Association Technical discussions will include new technologies that use ozone for water treatment, ozone in combination with 536 Environ. Sci. Technol., Vol. 21, No. 6, 1987
biological treatment, toxicological aspects and methods of eliminating byproducts of ozone treatment, treatment of air emissions with ozone, and ozone in medicine. Schweitzer IOA-Komitee, c/o Wasserversorgung Zurich, Hardhof 9/Postfach, CH-8023 Zurich, Switzerland; phone 0 1 435 2 1 11; Telex 822 060 wvz ch
Sept. 23-25 Gaithersburg, Md. 11th International Symposium on Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons National Bureau of Standards This symposium will concern the chemistry and biochemistry of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, many of which are suspected carcinogens. Topics include DNA adducts, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, detoxification, occupational exposure, metabolism, analytical methods, and pollution modeling. Kathy Stang, A345 Physics Building, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, Md. 20899; (301) 975-4513 Sept. 27-30 Pittsburgh, Pa. 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers for Hazardous Waste Management NUS Corporation The conference will provide a forum for discussion of the status of hazardous-waste Inanagement, international developments in technology, research needs and new concepts, waste minimization, biological and chemical destruction of wastes, thermal destruction, and the control of air emissions. Poster sessions also are scheduled. $225; $40, students (advance registration). Lynne Casper, NUS Corporation, Park West Tbo, Cliff Mine Road, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15275; (412) 788-1080 Sept. 29-0ct. 1 Des Moines, Iowa Agricultural Impacts on Ground Water-A Conference Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers Conference topics will include effects of pesticide application methods on groundwater quality, nitrates in groundwater, pesticide chemistry and its rela-
tion to groundwater, and innovative practices that minimize groundwater contamination. $345, nonmembers; $295, NWWA members; $75, students (advance registration). Pat Behling, National Water Well Association, Education Foundation, 6375 Riverside Drive, Dublin, Ohio 43017; (614) 761-1711; Telex 241302
Sept. 29-Oct. 1 Wurzburg, West Germany Environmental Meteorology International Symposium German Meteorological Society The topics of this meeting will include dry and wet deposition, pollutant dispersion and transport models, calibration of models, dispersion models for accidental releases of pollutants, microclimate studies in forestry and agriculture, and urban climate and atmospheric pollutants. J. Gbel, VDI Kommission Reinhaltung Der Luft, PO.Box 11 39, D-4000 Dusseldorf 1, West Germany; phone (02 11) 62 14 255
Oct. 4-10 Las Vegas, Nev. 7th International Symposium on Chlorinated Dioxins and Related Compounds University of Nevada Dioxins and dioxin-related compounds are the subject of Dioxin '87, which will cover analytical methods, standard setting, sources and control, cleanup and disposal, law and liability, and chemophobia. One special emphasis will be on human health effects. $285. Lynn Fenstermaker, Environmental Research Center, Unhersity of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nev. 89154; (702) 739-3382 Oct 27-29 Washington, D .C . Managing Environmental Risks APCA This specialty conference concerns environmental risk interpretation, communication, and management; federal risk management policies; and federal decision making. Sharon DeAndrea, APCA, PO. Box 2861, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230; (412) 232-3444
